Personnel

President and publisher of Picador and editor-at-large at Macmillan Frances Coady will be leaving the company as part of an editorial restructuring of the paperback imprint, according to a company-wide memo sent by ceo John Sargent late Thursday to staff (and confirmed to us Friday.) “Over time,” Sargent wrote, “the Picador list has largely gravitated toward FSG, and more recently Holt. At the same time, we have seen shifts in the distribution of Picador paperbacks. The structural/financial model, constructed in another time, has become less meaningful. So we need to change, and to reinvigorate Picador.” As a result, going forward […]

Co-head of ICM’s department selling books to the film world Nick Harris is among a group of agents whose contracts will not be renewed when they expire in March, according to multiple reports. Harris joined in ICM in late 2010 to lead the department alongside Josie Freedman. The agency is continuing to reshape itself as part of a transition to a partnership. Author and two-time Pulitzer-winning correspondent Anthony Shadid, 43, died on assignment in Syria, “apparently of an asthma attack.” NYT executive editor Jill Abramson wrote, “Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping […]

Crown has reorganized the reporting and leadership structure of its paperback imprints in the wake of Tina Pohlman’s departure to Open Road Integrated Media, announced earlier on Wednesday. The new structure, which is effective February 24, will bring Three Rivers Press and Broadway Books imprints in closer alignment with the hardcover imprints with which they are respectively associated. Three Rivers Press will now be overseen by svp, publisher for Crown Archetype, Crown Business, Crown Forum, and Harmony Book Tina Constable, with Crown Archetype vp, editor-in-chief Mauro DiPreta handling day-to-day responsibilities for Three Rivers. Senior editor Amanda Patten will now report […]